Joan Baez Quotes
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written.
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
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I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
